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...Team. The pair made an almost perfect space team. Inside Man McDivitt is a superb pilot and a first-class engineer who is the son of an electrical engineer. Outside Man White is a daring flyer, a fine athlete, a military career-man who is the son of a retired Air Force major general who flew everything from balloons to jets...
Simon quickly expanded his money-making talents from dice. Working after school, he bought bags, towels and tissues from a paper manufacturer and sold them to San Francisco stores. At 16, in his most ambitious flyer, he put up money to lease a vaudeville theater, had broken even on the venture and was on his way to a profit when his father persuaded him to pull out of show business. He put his money in the stock market, gradually worked up from penny stocks to A.T. & T. He spent six weeks at the University of California at Berkeley before balking...
...Barrientos analyzed it, the decision was forced on him by popular will. For months the dashing flyer has wavered back and forth, first, on whether he would be a candidate in the elections, and then, whether he should resign from the junta to run, as the constitution requires. Three weeks ago, in the face of mounting pressure on all sides, Barrientos suddenly announced that he was withdrawing from the elections in the interests of "national harmony and unity." Almost on cue, a series of noisy protest demonstrations erupted among pro-Barrientos peasants in Cochabamba and Sucre, south...
Admittedly, it's a close choice. Admittedly, the race is likely to be as tight as ever. Admittedly, the Dodgers have as weak-hitting a ball club as there is in the major leagues. But nonetheless, I'm going to take a flyer and take Los Angeles...
Some cynics claim that Barrientos has staged most of the assassination attempts himself. On the other hand, he is noted for risking his life. A U.S.-trained flyer, he burst on the scene three years ago after two recruits died in practice jumps with malfunctioning parachutes. When newspapers thundered about inferior equipment, Air Force Chief Barrientos invited news men to pick a chute from the same batch that the recruits had used. He then bailed out over La Paz airport. The whole country cheered his courage, and before long he was making speeches calling for reform and denouncing Bolivia...